CaseUnknown1996
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Young couple watch very bright light to W over Pacific O. Had "corona effect"; reflected off water. Suddenly disappeared. (Planet?)
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 3900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-12
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 65 min.
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-santa-cruz-ca-1996-ce0f10
In context
- Santa Cruz, CA has 76 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 136 reports from California.
Report
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